Fire Engines Photos

I'd love to know what became of the three Shelvoke RT's. They were at Parkside Commercials in Hounslow for a while, then the yard was cleared. I'm particularly interested in the fate of UTW421W which was based at Colchester. I have heard rumour that one was preserved (UTW422W ex-GRAYS)

Added by L W on 14 April 2011.

This looks like a rear-entrance walk-in design. Did it have crew seats in the rear?

Added by Rob Johnson on 18 August 2014.

They had a two man cab with a side door further down the nearside where the rear cab door would be on a standard pump. The lockers were mirrored on the other side and they had a pair of rear doors with chevron markings. Two roof mounted rotary beacons on the front, plus alternately flashing blue grille repeaters and a roof mounted 'Stem-Lite' with built in floodlights. On the rear were two blue repeaters like the grille ones which flashed together.

Added by on 23 September 2014.

Did these replace the (also unique) Essex Firemaster PESTs, or were there another set of ETs on the roster, which replaced the Firemasters and preceded this trio?

Added by Rob Johnson on 05 August 2020.

I think Essex had Dennis F106 ETs after the Firemaster.

Added by Ian on 06 August 2020.

Thanks Ian. I thought there must have been something by way of replacements for the Firemasters before Essex bought these Shelvokes, as by then they would have been pretty ancient.

Of course they did have a fondness for Dennis products, so F106s with the AEC diesel engine or F108s with the Perkins V8 would make sense...

Added by Rob Johnson on 10 August 2020.

They also had a Land Rover 109 Rescue Tender which ran out of Grays for a while. Could have been late 70's early 80's.

Added by Ian Britten on 11 August 2020.

Ian - a lot of LRs were used as rescues, as well as L4Ps, and could be very handy. But an awful lot of brigades overloaded them to the point where they were quite often actually very unstable and more than a little dangerous. There are many examples on this site, along with similarly overloaded Range Rover six wheelers...

Added by Rob Johnson on 12 August 2020.

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